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The Second Plane: September 11: 2001-2007 (2008) is
Martin Amis’s most controversial book. It is the latest of his
engagements with large modern traumas: the first, in the
short-story collection Einstein’s Monsters (1987), was with
the threat of nuclear weapons; the second, in the novel Time’s
Arrow (1991), with the Shoah; the third, in the nonfictional
Koba the Dread (2002), with Stalinism; and the fourth, in
The Second Plane, with “September 11” – Amis prefers this
formulation to “9/11” – and with what he calls “Islamism”. The book
consists of fourteen pieces, twelve essays and reviews and two
short stories, presented in the chronological order of composition.
They were …

Citation:
Tredell, Nicolas. "The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 January 2012
[https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23520, accessed 18 February 2018.]

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